Rikuzentakata City

Iwate Prefecture · City

Rikuzentakata City lies at the head of Hirota Bay and has one of the largest plains on the Sanriku Coast. Takata Matsubara, a long pine grove, was badly damaged by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the single pine tree that survived is known as the "Miracle Pine." Today the Takatamatsubara Memorial Park and the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum have been built there.

Key facts

Population: 16,395 975th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −10.2% 458th in Japanfrom 18,262 in 2020
Area: 232 km² 535th in Japan
Population density: 71 people/km² 1,172nd in Japan

Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.

Live information

Current weather (observed)

Places to visit

Chosen automatically, most popular first, from landmarks and cultural properties registered in Wikidata (we have not checked whether each is open). Names and descriptions: Wikidata (CC0); photos: Wikimedia Commons (photographer and license under each photo).

National parks in this city

Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National ParkTotal park area 285 km²Spans Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi

Chosen by overlaying the park boundaries (Ministry of the Environment, Biodiversity Center of Japan, "National Park Areas" GIS data, updated April 28, 2025, combined and simplified by NIPPON ATLAS) with municipal boundaries (National Land Numerical Information, January 2021), keeping overlaps of about 0.5 km² or more (approximate). Areas are the land areas from the Ministry of the Environment, "Overview of National Parks" (April 10, 2026). All national parks

Neighboring municipalities

Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).

The description was written for this site, picking out representative features.

Figures come from official Japanese statistics (such as the 2025 Census by the Statistics Bureau of Japan), with the source and year shown next to each one. Photos are freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons; the photographer and license are shown under each photo.

Prefectures Rankings Mountains & castles Places to visit National parks Sources & credits

Places to visit nearby

Map layers

Map

Weather & safety

Nature

History

Seasons